Sunday, April 08, 2007

Sunday 04/08 Quickie:Tiger Wins Ugly (So What?)

Wow, slow day or what? Sorry for the late start...

Masters: With everyone on the wrong side of par, this could be Tiger's ugliest Masters win ever. Which, of course, would have novelty in and of itself. Given his prodigious total, no one will remember if he wins "ugly." Just that he wins. (It raises an interesting question whether fans care at all about scores -- or simply care that Tiger is in the final pair, no matter what his number is.)

Yo Dan, can you raise a question tomorrow morning? Tiger (unless he eagles 18) has still never won a major that he wasn't leading after 54 holes. It's hard to call a 12-time major champion a choker, but he is a pure front-runner.... he has never come from behind (overall) on the last day.

Does that say anything about him?

I think we could get 100+ posts on just this one issue, nevermind the slate of great MLB games today.

i am sick of people who are going to redefine the foward position, it has not happened at all. Tim Thomas, no, antoine walker, no, larry johson (maybe if not injured but really no,) kg (no because there is no one else like him, just as magic did not redefine point guard kg can't redefine foward.) durant, no.

more so to my previous point, durant does not have to redefine the foward position, any team would take a 22-28 pt 8-11 reb guy (this is about how i see him in the nba) without delay. Also could someone fill me in on the suns pick situation, do they have the hawks pick so long as it is not top 3 or top 4?

i dont think you can label Tiger a choker. if you are down going into the final round, you aren't the favorite. It's not like Tiger was in the lead, then lost it. I think its more telling that the man rarely (never?) loses a lead going into the final round.

The new ESPN ombudsman thinks everything's ok with Schrutebag long as he got reprimanded. Check out her new article.... interesting how lightly she takes it. I disagree, but I'm curious as to your take on it, and the quickie readers takes on her response to him shutting down thebiglead.com. My opinion is spelled out on my blog, curious as to others. www.amblersports.blogspot.com

its not the reprimand she's happy with, its the new 'zero tolerance policy' that espn enacted because of it. i didn' tthink she was taking it lightly. She's just writing in the rarest of ways...in a professional manner.

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